Diagnostic messages generated by compilers and interpreters such as syntax error
messages have been researched for over half of a century. Unfortunately, these messages …

Since the early 1960's, researchers have built a number of programming languages and
environments with the intention of making programming accessible to a larger number of …

Three decades of active research on the teaching of introductory programming has had
limited effect on classroom practice. Although relevant research exists across several …

Get an In-Depth Understanding of Graph Drawing Techniques, Algorithms, Software, and
Applications The Handbook of Graph Drawing and Visualization provides a broad, up-to …

One of the central topics in computing education research (CEDR) is the exploration of how
a person learns their first programming language, also described in terms such as …

Greenfoot is an educational integrated development environment aimed at learning and
teaching programming. It is aimed at a target audience of students from about 14 years old …

Our research explores what we call compilation behaviour: the programming behaviour a
student engages in while repeatedly editing and compiling their programs. This edit-compile …

What knowledge does learning programming require? Prior work has focused on theorizing
program writing and problem solving skills. We examine program comprehension and …

One of the many challenges novice programmers face from the time they write their first
program is inadequate compiler error messages. These messages report details on errors …

Educators stand to benefit from advance predictions of their students' course performance
based on learning process data collected in their courses. Indeed, such predictions can help …